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Nan's Stories
Full text linkThis paper explores some of the many stories that my grandmother, Rēpora Marion Brown—Nan, told me when growing up and throughout my adult life. Nan was born at Waiōhau in 1940 and died at her home at Murupara in 2017. Nan was married to Papa— Edward Tapuirikawa Brown. Nan and Papa lived on Kōwhai Avenue in Murupara. Nan’s parents were Koro Ted (Hāpurona Edward (Ted) Maki Nātana) and Nanny Pare (Pare Koekoeā Rikiriki). Koro Ted and Nanny Pare lived around the corner from her on Miro Drive. My sister and I were raised on the same street as my great-grandparents, just six or seven houses away. I could see Koro Ted’s house—located on a slight hill—from my bedroom window
Two Suns? The Algorithmic State: The Bones of the Argument
Full text linkThe argument in the last part of the Two Suns? series was summed up as follows. There are several spaces or forms of space involved; territorial space, outer space, cyberspace and living space, And there is data to be found and owned in each of these spaces. That data may be processed using algorithms in each space and across all spaces.
The argument has been developed as follows. In Part One, the bones, at least some of them, of the argument in the series may be seen in the title,
Two Suns? The State of Amazon? Bezonomics, market control and the algorithmic state. Books by Brian Dumaine and Rob Hart, Bezonomics and The Warehouse respectively, were the jump off points for the discussion along with earlier work by me on incipient states. I asked about Amazon:
Is it an entity that now has a force, a scale, an ethic and a set of borders that speaks of a state-like situation wherein people rely and trust Amazon to fulfil their needs?
 
Representation, COVID-19, and failed metaphor: A critical analysis of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board vaccine booklet
Full text linkThis paper will critically analyse the Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s (BOPDHB) controversial vaccine booklet, which featured mataora-adorned cartoon images of the COVID-19 virus. This imagery caused a furore with anecdotal evidence from social media suggesting that Māori were outraged by the portrayal of Māori in this way.
This paper will offer two arguments. The first argument builds on Hokowhitu’s (2001) work, which deconstructed representations of Māori as animalistic, savage-barbarian, physical-unintelligent, mythical, bewildered-childlike, and romanticised-noble. The first argument will extend Hokowhitu’s (2001) analysis by deconstructing the representation of Māori as disease-virus. While it is impossible to understand the BOPDHB’s intentions, the second argument posits that the objective might have been to use the concept of taniwha as a metaphor for COVID-19. Though this argument is significantly weaker than the first, it still warrants some exploration, even if only to provide a sense of balance to this paper
E-learning and social media: Using Facebook to create an online community among applied social practice postgraduate students during a COVID-19 lockdown
Full text linkThis paper will discuss the use of Facebook as a means for creating an online community to support e-learning among applied social practice postgraduate students in the School of Healthcare and Social Practice at Unitec Institute of Technology during a lockdown in Auckland which began on 17 August 2021 and ended on 3 December 2021 (with the implementation of the COVID-19 Protection Framework see: https://covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights/covid-19-protection-framework/)
Two Suns? The Algorithmic State: History and Theory
Full text linkWhat follows is a history of cultural blindness. We might need to consider our historiography, the culture we find in the past, if you like, and the need to now reconstitute and re-frame that sense of history making the development of robotics and machine learning more central. Over in a usually forgotten corner there is a history of machines that may throw light on where we find ourselves today and in this section there is a consideration of that history, a story about robotics and theorists in this area unheard and unseen in many respects
Tutuku: Telling the stories of the Māori Showband world through digital innovation
Full text linkIn this article I will discuss the development and creation of the Tutuku digital archive. Tutuku is the name of the digital archive I have created as my nominated creative component for my PhD. Tutuku is coupled with my thesis “He Kohinga Kōrero: A selected group of Māori musicians and performers’ experiences of the 1960s through the Māori Showband movement”.
Tutuku contains people’s narratives and experiences, which in turn each have their own mauri or life principle (objectspace, 2020). The narratives could also be described as mana taonga. Mana taonga is a specific Māori curatorial concept that taonga have their own status and power which must be managed and cared for in a culturally appropriate way (Mccarthy, Dorfman, Hakiwai, and Āwhina, 2013, 7). The concept of mana taonga creates the space for indigenous voices to be self-determining in history retelling.
Tutuku creates pathways for expanding knowledge on many other subjects. Tutuku is available as an IOS App and web application located at Www.tutuku.co.nz. The second version will be available exclusively for Android devices in the Future. Tutuku will continue on into the future, to be a safe digital space for the sharing of indigenous experiences, culture and histories
Tama-ki-Hikurangi: A whare built for Te Kooti
Full text linkFor the followers of the famous nineteenth-century prophet Te Kooti in Waiōhau, Tama-ki-Hikurangi is an integral part of their whakapapa, history, and theology. Patuheuheu are followers of Te Kooti and as such, the Ringatū faith—the religion that he created—is part of what it means to be Patuheuheu. While adherence to the faith has waxed and waned, the whare, Tama-ki-Hikurangi remains as a focal point of Patuheuheu’s historical connection to Te Kooti and the Ringatū faith. Indeed, the faithful still gathers in the whare most Saturdays to hold hāpati—sabbath-day prayers. Tama-ki-Hikurangi was built for Te Kooti, and its size and design is a direct result of Te Kooti’s syncretistic theology. This paper is an exploration of what is known about the whare from a Patuheuheu perspective
Two Suns? Data, Algorithms, Spaces and Techno Feudalism
Full text linkA main thread in the Two Suns? series might be summed up as follows. There are several spaces or forms of space involved; territorial space, outer space, cyberspace and living space, And there is data to be found and owned in each of these spaces. That data may be processed using algorithms in each space and across all spaces. With such a thread in mind one argument in the Two Suns? series so far and going forward is as Data, Algorithms, Spaces, and Techno Feudalism follows; we should treat Big Tech as an incipient state with its own entry and exit points and its own infrastructure rather than constantly framing discussion in terms of a nation-state like the USA. The latter may have been and may still be a host for the Algorithmic State but this is not necessarily ongoing. Furthermore there is a range of nation states from the strong to the barely formed ranging through, say the examples of the USA, Australia and Myanmar and a varying use and influence of the algorithm within these nation states
It’s about me! My approach to autoethnography
Full text linkAutoethnography is about me as the writer and researcher exploring my lived experiences (Ballard, 2009; Ritchie et al., 2013) as a form of storytelling (Jones, 2003). It is a genre of writing that “shows struggle, passion, [and] embodied life” (Ellis & Bochner, 2006, p. 433) and provides “highly personalised accounts that draw upon the experience of the author/researcher”
The Potential of Vā Part 1: Working in the space between
Full text linkThis article is part of a series of chapters that composed an exegesis, submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The series is a narrative of discovery through practice-led research. Each article reveals its purpose and significance that leads into the next series, which then eventuate to that final design proposal.
The exegesis is presented in this format, to break down the components that assisted in practice-led research. Each article can be read and unpacked on its own as a learning tool. The purpose of this edited series is for the exegesis to be more accessible and adaptable creatively to those being introduced to practice-led research.
The Potential of Vā Part 1: Working in the space between, presents the contents and an introduction of the exegesis, it positions the research by placing the present investigation in the context of the writer’s previous work. This chapter outlines the contemporary artistic context in which this thesis exists, it also presents in detail the methods employed in the first phase of the research, and the use of traditional knowledge to form the Lala-Vā model framework.